Signs of a Bad Boss

• He ignores the classic, time honored cliché, “Praise in public, criticize in private.”
• He gives you assignments and doesn’t follow up.
• He doesn’t support you when something goes wrong.
• He thinks everything is fine when it isn’t.
• He constantly claims that he is empowering you, but isn’t.
• He micro-manages and needs to know everything.
• He acts paranoid.
• He jumps to conclusions.
• He doesn’t know how to plan, prioritize or organize.
• If it isn’t his idea, then it can’t be good.
• He implements two-faced attacks.
• He tells sarcastic jokes or teases.

The bold ones is the one that I encountered personally.

And believe it or not, even there are books which specially talk about bad boss stuff, , for example Crazzy Bosses written in 1992. Stanley Bing composed it to help people spotting, serving, surviving them - not run away from them.

Reference: http://humanresources.about.com/